Course Syllabus AP Human Geography
Text: De Blij, H.J., Alexander B. Murphy and Erin H. Fouberg. Human Geography:
People, Place and Culture. 9th Ed. New York: John Wiley, 2009.
Wood, Ethel, AP Human Geography: A Study Guide. Reading Pennsylvania: WoodYard
Publications, 2007
Supplemental Text
Rubenstein, James M. The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography.
9th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008.
Recommended Study Guide: Kaplan 2010 (2009 Possibly available online)
http://books.google.com/books?id=HgiZuboqBf0C&dq=kaplan+ap+human+
Course Planner
Weekly Schedule:
Day 1: Overview: Concept and ID’s
Day 2: Interactive Lesson
Day 3: Applied Knowledge (class activity)
Day 4: Review
Day 5: Quiz (ID’s FRQ)
Human Geography can be broken into seven major topics. The following is the
pacing guide for the class.
Geography: It’s Nature and Perspectives (3 weeks)
Population: (5 weeks)
Cultural Patterns and Processes (6 weeks)
Political Organization of Space (5 weeks)
Agricultural and Rural Land Use (4 weeks)
Industrialization and Economic Development (4 weeks)
Cities and Urban Land Use (4 weeks)
Review for Exam
Process
Each week concepts will be correlated with the appropriate vocabulary, data and
statistics. This will be reinforced with classroom activities, projects, group learning
and lecture.
Exam Preparation
Each concept will be taught according to the specifications of the College Board.
Emphasis will be placed on understanding the multiple-choice section, and the free
response question. The proper procedures for both will be taught and practiced.
Course Overview
This course has been designed to reflect the most recent course description of the
AP Human Geography requirements as published by the College Board. The course
will present the in-depth and systemic study of the following objectives:
Geography its Nature and Perspectives
Population
Cultural Patterns and Processes
Political Organization of Space
Agricultural and Rural Land Use
Industrialization and Economic Development
Cities and Urban Land Use
Unit I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Course Planner [C1]
Topic: I.
Geography its nature and perspectives
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam5-10%
Readings:
1
de Blij Ch. 1, Wood Ch 1, and Rubenstein Ch
Time:
3 weeks
Topic II.
Population
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam13-17%
Readings:
de Blij Ch. 2,3 Wood Ch 2, Rubenstein Ch 2,3
Time:
5 weeks
Topic III.
Cultural Patterns and Processes
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam13-17%
Readings:
de Blij Ch. 4-7 Wood Ch. 3, Rubenstein Ch. 4-7
Time:
6 weeks
Topic IV.
Political Organization of Space
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam13-17%
Readings
de Blij Ch. 8,14Wood Ch. 4, Rubenstein Ch. 8,9
Time:
5 weeks
Topic V.
Agricultural and Rural Land Use
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam13-17%
Readings
de Blij Ch. 11, Wood Ch. 5, Rubenstein Ch. 10
Time:
4 weeks
C1: The course
provides a systemic
study of human
geography, including
the following topics
outlined in the
Course Description
Topic VI.
Industrialization and Economic Development
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam13-17%
Readings
de Blij Ch. 10,12, Wood Ch. 6, Rubenstein Ch. 11, 12
Time
4 weeks
Topic VII.
Cities and Urban Land Use
M.C. Coverage on AP Exam13-17%
Readings
de Blij Ch. 9,13, Wood Ch. 7, Rubenstein Ch. 13,14
Time:
4 Weeks
Essential Questions and Vocabulary by Unit
I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Q. How does the concept of scale change perceptions of
geography?
C2: The course
teaches the use of
spatial concepts and
landscape analysis to
examine human
organization of space.
Q. How has geography as a course of study changed the way
humans view their activity space and the activity space of others?
Q. Why is the concept of regions, whether functional, formal, or perceptual inherent
in the understanding of human geography?
Q. How do humans develop a sense of place?
Q. What technology contributes to human understanding and further knowledge of
data and its spatial distribution?
Vocabulary Unit I.
Fieldwork
Human
geography
Globalization
Physical
geography
Spatial
Spatial
distribution
Pattern
Medical
geography
Spatial
perspective
Five themes
Pandemic
Location
Epidemic
Location theory
Humanenvironment
Region
Place
Sense of place
Global
positioning
system
Geocaching
relative
location
Perception of
place
Mental map
Movement
Generalized
map
Spatial
interaction
Distance
Accessibility
Connectivity
Landscape
Cultural
landscape
Sequent
Occupance
Cartography
Reference
maps
Thematic maps
Absolute
location
Activity space
Cultural
diffusion
Time-distance
decay
Cultural barrier
Expansion
diffusion
Contagious
diffusion
5Possibilism
Cultural
ecology
Political
ecology
Distortion
Equator
Grid pattern
Time distance
decay
Landscapes
Cultural barrier
Parallel
Expansion
diffusion
Mercator
projection
Formal region
Contagious
diffusion
Robinson
projection
Functional
region
Hierarchical
diffusion
Peter’s
projection
Perceptual
region
Stimulus
diffusion
Latitude
Culture
Relocation
diffusion
Remote
sensing
geographic
information
systems
Rescale
Culture trait
Culture
complex
Cultural hearth
Independent
invention
Geographic
concept
Environmental
determinism
Isotherm
Meridian
Longitude
Space-time
compression
Toponym
Site
Situation
II. Population
Q. What factors will influence growth rates?
Q. What scales are population densities used to determine
growth and carrying capacity?
Q. How is natural increase different from actual increase and
how do geographers determine each?
Q. What factors indicate where a population is grouped
according to the demographic transition model?
C4: The Course teaches
students how to use and
interpret maps, data
sets, and geographic
models. GIS, aerial
photographs, and
satellite images, though
not required, can be used
effectively in the course.
Q. How do populations move stages in the demographic transition model and how is
the knowledge of this data used?
Q. Why is it important to understand the factors that lead to the changes that signify
shifts of population from one stage to another in the demographic transition mode?
Q. Which populations are growing the fastest and what are the concerns embedded
in the growth of those populations?
Q. How does education play a role in the growth and movement of population?
Q. What distinguishes a refugee either internally or internationally and why are
their different data sets to explain this?
Q. How does the gravity model and distance decay play a role in migration and the
demography of cities?
Vocabulary Unit II.
Population
density
Arithmetic
population
density
Physiological
population
density
Population
distribution
Dot maps
Megalopolis
Census
Doubling time
Population
explosion
Crude death
rate
Population
pyramids
Demographic
transition
model
Infant
mortality rate
Natural
increase
Stationary
population
level
Crude birth
rate
Population
composition
Newborn
mortality rate
Total fertility
rate
Child mortality
rate
Life expectancy
Remittances
Infectious
diseases
Cyclic
movements
Chronic or
degenerative
diseases
Periodic
movement
Genetic or
inherited
diseases
Endemic AIDS
expansive
population
policies
Eugenic
population
policies
Restrictive
population
policies
One child
policy
Voluntary
migration
Laws of
migration
Gravity model
Migration
Push factors
Activity spaces
Pull factors
Nomadism
Distance decay
Migrant labor
Step migration
Transhumance
Intervening
opportunity
Military service
International
migration
Immigration
Internal
migration
Forced
migration
Colonization
Regional scale
Islands of
development
Guest workers
Refugees
Internally
displaces
persons
Asylum
Repatriation
Deportation
Genocide
Kinship links
Immigration
laws
Chain
migration
Immigration
wave
Explorers
Quotas
Selective
immigration
Topic III. Cultural Patterns and Processes
Q. How is popular culture differentiated from local culture?
Q. How has globalization created “placelessness”?
Q. How has authenticity of place been challenged by commodification?
Q. How do local cultures define themselves and protect their identity?
C3: The course
teaches spatial
relationships at
different scales
ranging from the
local to the global
Q. What are the similarities of rural local cultures and urban local cultures?
Q. In what ways does cultural appropriation and assimilation threaten local
cultures?
Q. How has identity been shaped by place and vice-versa?
Q. What is the role of ethnic neighborhoods and diffusion in creating a sense of
place?
Q. How do people define themselves by observing “the other” and how does this
help to create cultural identity?
Q. In what ways are the concepts of race and ethnicity misunderstood and used to
perpetuate power relationships that may be unequal?
Q. Why are some states linguistically diverse compared to others that are not?
Q. What countries share a common language and how is this related to the concept
of language groups and diffusion?
Q. What are the major factors that have influenced and continue to influence the
diffusion of religion?
Q. What relationships are shared by various religions?
Q. What is the primary difference in the concept of evangelizing faiths and
hereditary faiths?
Q. How does religion shift focus as scales shift?
Vocabulary Unit III.
Culture
Local culture
Folk culture
Material
culture
Popular culture
Nonmaterial
culture
Hierarchical
diffusion
Hearth
Assimilation
Custom
Cultural
appropriation
Neolocalism
Ethnic
neighborhood
Succession
Nostratic
Secularism
Senses of place
Language
divergence
Monotheistic
religion
Language
convergence
Polytheistic
religion
Renfrew
hypothesis
Animistic
religion
Conquest
theory
Universalizing
religion
Dispersal
hypothesis
Ethnic religion
Ethnicity
Space
Commodificati
on
Place
Authenticity
Queer theory
Distance decay
Dowry deaths
Time-space
compression
Reterritorializa
tion
Gendered
Barrioization
Language
Culture
Cultural
landscape
Multi
intelligibility
Placelessness
Standard
language
Global-local
continuum
Dialects
Glocalization
Dialect chains
Folk-housing
regions
Isogloss
Diffusion
routes
Gender
Identity
Identifying
against
Race
Racism
Residential
segregation
Language
families
Subfamilies
Sound shift
Proto-Indo
European
Backward
reconstruction
Extinct
language
Deep
reconstruction
Romance
languages
Hinduism
Caste system
Germanic
languages
Buddhism
Slavic
languages
Taoism
Lingua franca
Pidgin
language
Shintoism
Feng Shui
Confucianism
Judaism
Creole
language
Diaspora
Monolingual
states
Christianity
Multilingual
states
Official
language
Global
language
Zionism
Eastern
Orthodox
Church
Roman Catholic
Church
Protestant
Place
Islam
Toponym
Sunni
Religion
Shi’ite
Indigenous
religions
Sacred sites
minarets
Ethnic
cleansing
Religious
extremism
Shamanism
Hajj
Activity space
Shari’a laws
Secularism
Interfaith
boundaries
Religious
fundamentalis
m
Jihad
Pilgrimage
Intrafaith
boundaries
Unit IV. Political Organization of Space
Q. What are the elements of a multinational or unitary country
respectively?
Q. How has the nature of make-up of multinational unions
changed over the last century?
C2: The Course
teaches the use of
spatial concepts and
landscape analysis to
examine human
organization of space.
Q. What are the primary similarities and contrasting views of
Spykman and Mackinder?
Q. What is the law of the sea and how has it evolved with time?
Q. What is the role of technology in globalization?
Q. What geopolitical regions are most susceptible to the process of devolution?
Q. What is the New World Order and what major factors played a role in its
development?
Vocabulary:
Political
Geography
Multistate
nation
State
Stateless nation
Territoriality
Colonialism
Sovereignty
Scale
Territorial
integrity
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Peace of
Westphalia
Nation
Nation-state
Democracy
Multinational
state
Commodificati
on
Core
Periphery
Semiperiphery
Unitary
Federal
Devolution
Territorial
representation
Reapportionme
nt
Splitting
Majorityminority
districts
Ability
Gerrymanderin
g
Centripetal
Boundary
Centrifugal
Geometric
boundary
Physicalpolitical
boundary
Heartland
theory
Critical
geopolitics
Unilateralism
Supranational
organization
Globalization
Washington
consensus
Networks
Participatory
development
Local exchange
trading system
(LETS)
Vertical
integration
Synergy
Elongated
states
Enclaves,
exclaves
Ethnic force
Imperialism
Privatization
Institutions
Ratzel
Integration
Rimland theory
Internal
boundaries
Security
Council
Irredentism
Separatist
movement
Gatekeepers
Ethnonationali
sm
Horizontal
integration
European
Constitution
Landlocked
states
Colonies
European
Monetary
Union
Mackinder
Spatial force
Market
economy
Spykman
Compact states
European
Union
Marketization
Confederal
system
Federal system
Command
economy
Core area
Forward
capital
Cultural
boundary
Fragmentation
Democratizatio
n
Fragmented
states
Microstates
Multicore state
Perforated
states
Physical
boundary
Frontiers
Political
geography
Geometric
boundary
Political culture
Geopolitics
Politicalization
of religion
Economic force
Government
Primate city
Electoral
geography
Heartland
theory
Politics
Disputes:
Positional,
territorial,
resource,
functional
Sovereignty
Supranational
organization
Territorial
morphology
Territoriality
“Third wave” of
democratizatio
n
Three pillars
Unitary state
Unit V. Agricultural and Rural Land Use
Q. What developments would help lead to the second agricultural
revolution?
Q. What are the main elements of the third agricultural revolution
and how did these elements develop?
Q. What is the impact of the Green Revolution on developing
countries and the future development all countries?
Q. What is the role of vertical and horizontal integration in making
agriculture more profitable and leading away from the family farm
and towards the expansion of agribusiness?
C4: The course teaches
students how to use and
interpret maps, data
sets, and geographic
models. GIS, aerial
photographs, and
satellite images though
not required can be used
effectively in the course.
Q. What are the effects of globalization on agriculture on different scales?
Vocabulary:
Agribusiness
Extensive
agriculture
Job
specialization
Extensive
subsistence
agriculture
Laborintensive
agriculture
Location theory
Cereal grains
Green
Revolution
Columbian
exchange
Hamlets,
villages
Commercial
agriculture
Horticulture
Agricultural
hearths
Agriculture
Biotechnology
Desertification
Dispersed
settlement
pattern
Enclosure
Erosion
Hunters and
gatherers
Intensive
agriculture
Intensive
subsistence
agriculture
Irrigation
Long-lot survey
system
Mediterranean
agriculture
Nomadism
Nucleated
settlement
pattern
Organic
agriculture
Pampas
Pastoral
nomadism
Mercantilism
Patriarchal
system
Metes and
bounds
Plantation
farming
Milkshed
Postindustrial
societies
Mixed crop and
livestock
farming
Neolithic
Revolution
Primary sector
Primogeniture
Quaternary
sector
Rectangular
survey system
Second
Agricultural
Revolution
Secondary
sector
Shifting
cultivation
(swidden
agriculture)
Specialization
Subsistence
agriculture
Tertiary sector
Seed
agriculture
Third
Agricultural
Revolution
Seed drill
Truck Farming
Vegetative
planting
Von Thunen’s
Model
Wattle
Wet (lowland)
rice
Winter wheat
area, spring
wheat area,
“world
breadbasket”
Soil erosion
Biodiversity
Global
warming
Unit VI. Industrialization and Economic Development
Q. How do stratifications occur in modern society?
Q. What postmodern developments have occurred in the core regions of the world?
Q. How do the theories of Christaller effect modern distribution of goods and
services?
Q. How can you use the multiplier effect to discuss the importance of primary
economic activities in a service-based economy?
Q. How is site differentiated from situation?
Vocabulary:
Acid rain
Economic
development
Industrial
revolution
country
(MDC’s, LDC’s)
Break-of-bulk
Economic
geography
Infrastructure
NAFTA
Bulk-reducing
industries,
bulk-gaining
industries
Exportoriented
industrializatio
n
Kanto Plain
New
industrializatio
n of labor
Capitalist
world economy
Fossil fuels
Location theory
Global
warming
Locational
interdependen
ce
Agglomeration
Compressed
modernity
Conglomerate
corporations
Deglomeration
GDP, GDP per
capita
Friction of
distance
Deindustrializa
tion
Global
warming
Dependency
theory
Greenhouse
effect
Distance decay
Industrializatio
n
Laborintensive
industries
Maquiladora
district
Meiji
Restoration
Modernization
model
More
developed
country, less
developed
Newly
industrializing
country
Northeast
district (China)
Oligarchs
(Japan)
Pacific Rim
Post-Industrial
societies
Primary
economic
activities,
primary sector
Primary
industry
Secondary
industry
Proven
reserve/potent
ial reserve
Quaternary
sector
Rostow/Rosto
w’s stages
Secondary
economic
activities,
secondary
sector
Secondary
industrial
region
Single market
manufacturers
Site factors
Social
development
Space-time
compression
Special
Economic
Zones
Substitution
principle
Sustainable
development
Tertiary sector
Trading blocs
Transnational
corporations
Value added
productivity
Dependency
theory
Variable
revenue
analysis
Dollarization
Wallerstein
Watt
Commodity
chain
Formal
economy
Informal
economy
Modernization
model
Structuralist
theory
World-systems
theory
Export
processing
zones
Islands of
development
Microcredit
program
Technopole
Offshore
Unit VII. Cities and Urban Land Use
Q. How is a diversified economic base important to cities?
Q. How does the second agricultural revolution and the
industrial revolution form an integrated system for moving
the world’s population through the demographic transition
model?
Q. What are the different migration patterns to cities and
how have they changed over time?
Q. Why have global cities developed where they have on a
regional scale?
Q. How does the impact of developed countries differ from
developing countries?
C2: The Course
teaches the use of
spatial concepts and
landscape analysis to
examine human
organization of space.
C4: The course teaches
students how to use and
interpret maps, data sets,
and geographic models. GIS,
aerial photographs, and
satellite images though not
required can be used
effectively in the course.
Q. In what ways has the global movement towards
supranationalism effected environmental activities?
Q. How does urban planning play a role in urban communities?
Q. What are the effects of ethnic neighborhoods on the urban landscape?
Q. How is gentrification an evident and dynamic factor in the cityscape?
Vocabulary:
Base ratio
Basic, nonbasic
sectors
Burgess, E.W.
Bosnywash
Census tract
Central
business
district (CBD)
Center city
Central place
theory
Disamenity
sector
Christaller,
Walter
Edge cities
City
City-state
Complementar
y regions
Concentric
zone model
Councils of
government
Export
activities
Feminization of
poverty
Formative era
Gentrification
Ghettos,
ghettoization
Greenbelts
Hamlet
Harris and
Ullman
Hierarchy of
central places
Hoyt, Homer
Infrastructure
in situ
accretion
Manufacturing
city
Megacity
Rush hours
Sector model
Urban
influence zone
Urban renewal
Shantytowns
Blockbusting
Megalopolis
Settlement
geography
Mercantile city
Smart growth
World city
Concentric
zone model
Metropolitan
area
Social area
analysis
Zone in
transition
Spaces of
consumption
Metropolitan
statistical area
Specialfunction cities
Zone of
maturity
Solid waste
Micropolitan
statistical area
Sprawl
Zoning
ordinance
Multiple-nuclei
model
Multiplier
effect
Nucleated
States
Suburbs
Town
Transportation
centers
Wirth, Louis
Urban
morphology
Social
stratification
Peripheral
model
Urban area
First urban
revolution
Urban elite
Trade area
Physical city
Urban empire
Rank size rule
Primate cities
Urban
geography
Griffin-Ford
Model
Urban
hierarchy
Edge cities
Public housing
Rank size rule
McGee model
New urbanism
Sanitary
landfills
Toxic waste
Radioactive
waste
Montreal
protocol
Vienna
Convention for
the Protection
of the Ozone
Layer
Activities by Unit:
Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Week 1
Introduction
to the
course and
the syllabus
Week 2
Week 3
Introduction
to the
course.
Readings by
planner.
Five Themes Five themes
Presentation
Historical
beginnings
of the study
of
Geography
Fruit maps
(Fruits by
season)
Maps of
Functional
Regions
Maps of
Vernacular
(Perceptual)
Regions
Maps of
Formal
Regions
Lecture
Assessment
notes and
and Review
Jigsaw
1.1
presentation
Power of
Place Series
#1 One
Earth Many
Scales
Review FRQ
format.
Assessment
and Review
1.2
Review and
Complete
project
Review and
Assessment
2.1
C1
Unit Test:
MC and
FRQ
Population
Week 1
Arithmetic
and
Physiological
Density
Project
Population
Pyramids
Read deBlij
Chapter 2
part 1
Read Wood
Chapter 2
part 1
Read deBlij
Chapter 2
part 2
Read Wood
Chapter 2
part 2
Week 3
Migration
and Patterns
of Migration
Read deBlij
Chapter 3
part 1
Week 4
Demographic Plot the
Transition
countries of
the
Population
Pyramid
Project in
Week 2
Review and
complete
Population
Pyramids
Read Wood
Maps of
Chapter 2
Migration
part 3
patterns and
vocabulary
Completion
Presentation
of
of DMT and
Demographic Migration
Transition
patterns
Model
Project
Review and
Assessment
2.2
Review and
Assessment
2.3
Review and
Assessment
2.4
C2,
C4
C
Week 5
The
Developing
World,
Health and
Education
the proper
place in the
Demographic
Transition
Model
Examine the
effects of
Women’s
education on
population
Plot the CBR
and CDR and
TFR and
cross
reference to
female
education
Preview
FRQ from
College
Board
Website
Review and
Assessment
2.5
M.C. and
FRQ’s
Cultural Patterns and Processes
Week 1
Read deBlij
Ch 4 part 1
Read Wood
Ch 3 part 1
Popular
Culture v.
Local
Culture
Traditional
Religion
Map of
Local
Culture of
the U.S. and
Canada
Buddhism
Week 2
Read deBlij
Ch 4 part 2
Week 3
Read deBlij
Ch 5 part 1
Week 4
Read deBlij
Ch 6
Week 5
Read deBlij
Ch 7
Read Wood
Ch 3 part 2
Folk
housing
Regions
(From
Rubenstein)
Read Wood Power of
Ch 3 part 3 Place series
#21
“Population
Geography”
Hinduism
Read Wood Jigsaw
Ch 3 part 4 Activity
Eastern
(Chinese)
Religions
Read Wood Islam
Ch 3 part 4
Week 6
Culture
Use the
Christianity
ID review
Review and
MC and FRQ Assessment
review
3.1
ID review
Review and
MC and FRQ Assessment
review
3.2
ID review
Review and
MC and FRQ Assessment
review
3.3
Jigsaw
Activity 2
Review and
Assessment
3.4
ID review
MC and FRQ
review
ID review
Review and
Assessment
3.5
Review and
C3
Project
Religious
Landscape
silhouettes
laptops to
complete
the culture
project (see
rubric)
and
Judaism
MC and FRQ Assessment
review
3.6 MC and
FRQ
Political Organization of Space
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Introduction to
Political
Geography
Rubenstein Ch. 8
and 9
Territorial
Morphology
Video: Power of
Place, # 3
Supranationalism
and Devolution
State Political
Organization;
centripetal and
centrifugal
forces
Political,
economic and
military
cooperation
Read
deBlij Ch 8
part 1
Wood Ch
4 part 1
Read
deBlij Ch 8
part 2
Wood Ch
4 part 2
Map
research
Project 1
Read
deBlij Ch 8
part 3
Wood Ch
3 part 3
Read Ch. 8
part 4
Wood Ch
4 part 4
Map
research
Project 3
Internal
organization of
States
Review for Review for
Exam 1.1
Exam 1.2
Map
research
Project 2
Map
Research
Project 4
Review
Project 1
critique
and
correct
Review
Project 2
critique
and
correct
Nationalities
and
Nation
States
Review
Project 3
critique
and
correct
Review
Project 4
critique
and
correct
Review for
Exam 1.3
Electoral
Geography
Boundaries
and the law
of the Sea
Assessment
4.1
Semester
Exam MC
(75)and
FRQ (3)
Agricultural and Rural Land Use
Week 1
deBlij Ch
11 part 1,
Wood Ch 5
part 1,
Rubenstein
Agricultural
revolutions
Agricultural
Products
Project
C2
C4
Whittlesley’s Mapping
agricultural agriculture
regions
Assessment
5.1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Ch. 10 part
1
deBlij Ch
11 part 2,
Wood Ch 5
part 2,
Rubenstein
Ch 10 part
2
assigned
The Green
Revolution
(And
Criticism)
Agricultural
Products
Project
Review
Rice and the
impact of
rice as a
necessity
and a
cultural
product
Green
Revolution:
Charting the
impact of
Grain
Assessment
5.2
deBlij Ch
11 part 3,
Wood Ch 5
part 3,
Rubenstein
Ch 10 part
3
deBlij Ch
11 part 4,
Wood Ch 5
part 4,
Rubenstein
Ch 11 part
4
Agribusiness
Agricultural
Products
Project
Review
Video: The
Meatrix
Paidiea
seminar
Video: The
Power of
Place series
#16 Rural
and Urban
Contrasts
Assessment
5.3
Agricultural
Products
Project
Review
Regional
primary
activities
Agricultural
Products
Project due
Presentations Assessment
of Projects
5.4
Industrialization and Economic Development
Week
1
Week
2
deBlij Ch
10 part 1,
Wood Ch 6
part 1,
Rubenstein
Ch 11 part
1
deBlij Ch
10 part 2,
Wood Ch 6
part 2,
Rubenstein
Ch 11 part
1
Measures of
Human
Development
development
Industrialization index
Project begins
Part I charting
Industry
Industrialization
Part II Analyzing
the where of
Industry Global
The
Industrial
Revolution:
distribution
of industrial
production
C2, C4
Development
by Scale:
Industrial
development
from
individual to
global
Heavy
Industry
(Focused
look at the
countries of
Eastern
Europe;
Compare
Assessment
6.1
Assessment
6.2
Week
3
deBlij Ch
12 part 1,
Wood Ch 6
part 3,
Rubenstein
Ch 12 part
1
Week
4
deBlij Ch
12 part 2,
Wood Ch 6
part 4,
Rubenstein
Ch 12 part
2
Industrialization
Part III
Analyzing the
where of
Industry by
Region (use
models of scaled
regions)
Presentation
day 1
Free Trade
and
Developing
nations
(FRQ)
practice
Presentation
day 2
Contrast to
the U.S. and
Canada
(China, up
and coming)
Foreign
exchange
rates (Class
mini-project
using valued
and devalued candy
(see rubric)
Presentation
day 3
Assessment
6.3
Assessment
6.4 MC and
FRQ
Cities and Urban Land Use
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
deBlij Ch 9
part 1,
Wood Ch 7
part 1,
Rubenstein
Ch 13 part 1
deBlij Ch 9
part 2,
Wood Ch 7
part 2,
Rubenstein
Ch 13 part 2
Origin and
FRQ scoring Market
Evolution of and
Areas
Cities
discussion
Assessment
7.1
Models of
Urban
Structure
Assessment
7.2
deBlij Ch 13
part 1,
Wood Ch 7
part 3,
Rubenstein
Ch 14 part 1
Video:
Power of
Place series,
# 11 A
Challenge
for Two Old
Cities
FRQ scoring Video:
and
Power of
discussion
Place series,
#24:
Cityscapes,
Suburban
Sprawl
FRQ scoring Fieldtrip to
and
downtown
discussion
Miami (TriRail and
Metro-Rail)
Stop at
Overtown
Assessment
7.3
Week 4
deBlij Ch 13 Review Unit Practice
part 2,
Test 1
Wood Ch 7
part 4,
Rubenstein
Ch 14 part 2
Practice
Test 2
Practice
Test 3
Key:
C1: The course provides a systemic study of human geography, including the
following topics outlined in the course description.
C2: The course teaches the use of spatial concepts and landscape analysis to
examine human organization of space.
C3: The course teaches spatial relationships at different scales ranging from the
local to the global.
C4: The Course teaches students how to use and interpret maps, data sets, and
geographic models, GIS aerial photographs, and satellite images, though not
required, can be used effectively in the course.